The Turret is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. House.
The Turret
- WRENN ID
- noble-render-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Turret, 6, Bath Road, Cowes, PO31 7RH
- OS grid reference
- SZ 495 963
- Coordinates
- 50.76461, -1.29917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Turret is an early 19th-century house located on the south-west side of Bath Road in West Cowes. The building is now faced with roughcast and features a hipped slate roof. It has three storeys and includes one window facing north-east and one window facing north-west, with a curved front. The glazing bars are intact above the ground floor, and there is an eaves cornice. A mid-19th century curved shop window consists of five narrow panes with a cornice above it, along with a doorway to the south that has a rectangular fanlight beneath the cornice.
Local climate
The Turret receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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